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Less Retarded Society

Less [1]retarded society (LRS, same [2]acronym as [3]less retarded
software) is a model of ideal society towards which we, the [4]LRS, want
to be moving. Less retarded society is a [5]peaceful, collaborative
society based on [6]love of all [7]life, which aims for maximum well being
of all living beings, a society without violence, [8]money, oppression,
need for [9]work, social [10]competition, poverty, scarcity, criminality,
[11]censorship, [12]self-interest, [13]government, police, [14]laws,
[15]bullshit, slavery and many other negative phenomena. It equally values
all living beings and establishes true social equality in which everyone
can pursue his true desires freely -- it is a TRULY [16]leftist society,
NOT a [17]pseudoleftist one. The society works similarly to that described
by the [18]Venus Project and various [19]anarchist theories (especially
[20]anarcho pacifist [21]communism), but it also takes good things from
elsewhere, even various [22]religions (without itself actually becoming a
religion in traditional sense); for example parts of teaching of [23]Jesus
and [24]Buddha. As Freddie Mercury put it, this could be heaven for
everyone -- achieving heaven for everyone to us is a goal truly worth
living for.

How is this different from other ideologies and "life philosophies"? Well,
one principal difference is that LRS doesn't want to [25]fight, in fact
LRS adopts a [26]pessimistic, [27]defeatist mindset to not compromise
[28]morality by any desire to "win the game", behaving correctly is more
important than achieving a goal, ends do NOT justify the means. In order
to establish a truly good society a crucial realization is that harm is
only ever done by those trying to force their ideas -- it is even
irrelevant what the ideas are, whether it's self-interest, equality,
collectivism, sharing, important is only that forcing any idea will do
harm, so giving up force and violence is the absolutely essential first
step we have to make. That's in stark contrast with today's mentality.
Nowadays as well as in the past society has always been about conflict,
playing a game against others (nowadays e.g. market competition,
employment competition, media competition, ...) in which some win, some
can manage and some lose. Most political parties nowadays just want to
change the rules of the game or downright switch to a different kind of
game, some want to make the rules "more fair", or to make it favor their
represented minority (so called [29]fascism), some just want to [30]hack
the game, some want to [31]cheat to win the game easily, some want to play
fair but still win (i.e. become "successful"). LRS simply sees any kind of
such game as unnecessary, cruel, unethical and harmful in many ways not
just to us, but to the whole planet. LRS therefore simply wants to stop
the game, not by force but by making everyone see how bad the game is. It
says that competition and conflict must seize to be the basis of society.
There is no value in achieving anything by violence, such a change will
soon be reverted by counter revolution, people themselves have to
understand what's good and choose it voluntarily. That is one of the
reasons why we are [32]pacifists and reject all violence, only wanting to
promote our ideas by [33]education. We accept we may not achieve our goals
and we most certainly won't achieve anything during our lifetime and that
gives us the freedom to behave truly morally. We try to never be [34]proud
of anything, as pride leads to violence and fascism. We are also in many
ways aligned with the ideals of [35]cynicism.

Note that less retarded society is an ideal model, i.e. it can probably
not be achieved 100% but it's something that gives us a direction and to
which we can get very close with enough effort. We create an ideal
theoretical model and then try to [36]approximate it in reality, which is
a [37]scientific approach that is utilized almost everywhere: for example
[38]mathematics defines a perfect sphere and such a model is then useful
in practice even if we cannot ever create a mathematically perfect sphere
in the real physical world -- the mathematical equations of a sphere guide
us so that with enough effort we are able to create physical spheres that
are pretty close to an ideal sphere. The same can be done with society.
This largely refutes the often given argument that "it's impossible to
achieve so we shouldn't try at all" -- we should try our best and the
closer to the ideal we get, the better for us.

In current society people wake up in the morning and go banging a head
against a wall for the whole day, then they suffer from major headaches,
sometimes acquire brain damage and their walls are red from all the blood.
They try to solve this by investing into development of anti-headache
medicine and researching paints that are cheap while covering the blood on
the wall, some people spend centuries developing a wall material that's
strong enough to hold the house but also locally soft so that it doesn't
hurt that much to hit it with a head, but they created a system in which
the material can only be used if some people throw enough pieces of paper
that says "yes" into some kind of box and then some guy has to also draw a
certain shape on a piece of paper, because otherwise it would be too easy.
There are two major parties, one says you should hit the wall with your
head as quickly as you can, the other one says you should hit it slowly
but much stronger, then some smaller parties are something in between.
Some very underground parties promote extremely progressive ideas such as
leaving out the wall altogether and rather hitting yourself with a hammer
because that's more efficient and the word efficiency [39]sounds good.
There are also organizations that overlook the discussion between these
parties but they are corrupt so there is another organization that
overlooks the previous organization. If you think it's all idiotic you're
right -- the only sane group in the world is LRS that simply says: stop
hitting walls with your heads you retards, it will solve everything and
you'll get rid of all the [40]bullshit around as a bonus.

Basis: Love Of All Life

When thinking about how to change society for the better, the first thing
that needs to be done is defining a goal which the society should aim for
-- an [41]axiom which serves as a measure of what's objectively [42]good
and [43]bad, which in turn helps us take the right steps towards the good.
This is only logical, without a goal we aren't really trying to achieve
anything and "good" and "evil" are just words without any objective
meaning.

The basis of less retarded society is a universal and unconditional
[44]selfless [45]altruistic [46]love of all [47]life (life at large, i.e.
not just people, but also animals and other life forms and life as a
concept); the kind of love a glimpse of which you catch when you for
example observe an animal play and be happy of just existing as a living
being that's able to feel joy and happiness. This kind of love and the
strong emotion associated with it is to us possibly the greatest miracle
of the universe and so we choose to support it, make it flourish, we
define it as an axiom that life which experiences joy and happiness is
good. Similarly we define it as bad when life feels suffering or when
there is little or even no life in the universe. Here we set the goal for
our society to support life, make it flourish, and make individual living
beings feel happiness.

We purposefully make this goal a little bit vague, we avoid specifying our
basic goal with exact mathematical metrics because defining maximization
of any such measure as a goal leads to undesired results (as for example
in [48]capitalism setting the goal to maximizing capital leads to
maximizing it on the detriment of all other values such as well being of
people). This is known as the [49]Goodhart's law: "when a metric becomes a
goal, it stops being a good metric".

What does love of all life mean exactly? As hinted above, it does NOT
necessarily mean maximizing specific measures such as abundance of life
(which could lead to overpopulation and in turn to suffering), the sum of
happiness of all life (which could lead to just dosing everyone with drugs
or killing unhappy individuals), elimination of negative emotion such as
hatred (which would likely prevent us from recognizing wrong directions of
our society), it doesn't mean respect towards everyone etc. It doesn't
even mean that we will never kill anyone on purpose, our society may
support [50]euthanasia without violating its principles. Love of all life
mostly means that we start behaving [51]selflessly and [52]altruistically
instead of pursuing self interest, at least as much as we practically can.
It means that we start seeing the life on our whole planet (and possibly
in the whole universe) as our own family, not as our enemies. This doesn't
mean we will like everyone, that we'll agree with everyone's opinions,
that we won't criticize anyone or that we'll be [53]politically correct
etc., it just means that we will never try to cause suffering to others,
that we'll try to not exploit others, that we'll be aware of the needs of
others and try to behave towards them with empathy and love. Importantly
we will try to pursue these ideals even if we can't achieve perfection.

Basic Description

The following is a basic description of just some features of the ideal
society, some of which are however only speculative. Keep in mind it is
impossible to plan a whole society exactly -- even if some of the
speculations here turn out to be somehow erroneous, it probably still
doesn't present a fatal obstacle to implementing our society, things may
simply just turn out differently or to be more or less challenging than we
predict.

Our society is [54]anarcho pacifist and [55]communist, meaning it rejects
[56]capitalism, [57]money, violence, [58]war, states, social hierarchy
etc. I.e. in our society money, market, capitalism, consumerism, private
property, wage labor and trade don't exist, people are free and happy as
they can pursue their true interests and potential without worrying about
resource fight.

People don't have to [59]work, basically everything is [60]automated and
extremely [61]simplified so that the amount of work needed to be done is
minimized by eliminating unnecessary [62]bullshit jobs such as marketing,
lawyers, insurance, politicians, state bureaucracy, creation of consumer
entertainment and goods etc. One of the basic principles of our society is
that any individual can simply live, without having to deserve this right
by proving worth, usefulness, obedience etc. The little remaining human
work that's necessary is done voluntarily. There is no life path
("elementary school, high school, college, marriage, work, retirement,
death") lined up for anyone, no [63]fight awaiting, only one lifetime
given to the hands of every new born individual to dedicate to whatever he
finds best.

As people don't have to work, very few people need to make daily travels,
therefore there are very few roads and cars, making more space for nature,
farming, leading to cleaner air, and almost completely eliminating noise
and light pollution (and other things such as traffic accidents),
furthermore also greatly reducing work needed to be done in connection to
maintaining roads, sidewalks, directing traffic, manufacturing and
repairing cars and so on. As no business exists anymore, there is no
[64]marketing, there are no ads, no billboards, no workplaces connected to
marketing are needed anymore, further eliminating jobs, increasing space
for living, for nature, mental health is increasing and so on.
Disappearing industries further on eliminate other industries living off
of them, such as law firms, transport companies, security agencies,
cleaning firms, patent offices, state bureaucracy and so on and so forth.
More people can now study medicine as opposed to investing in bitcoin or
making bullshit startups, leading to greater number of doctors who can
dedicate more time to patients, which together with free healthcare and
the great stress relief increases health of people -- people are happier,
full of life and can do anything they feel is best with full focus,
without distractions and bullying. Increased mental health and abundance
leading to decrease in conflicts and crime lead to eliminating police and
army, more jobs and bullshit are being rid of, well being of people is
skyrocketing, nature is recovering, society is flourishing.

Society is NOT based on [65]competition, but rather on [66]collaboration.
Making people compete for basic life resources is seen as highly cruel and
unethical. The natural need for competition is still satisfied with
[67]games and sports, but people know competition is kind of a poison and
know they have to practice self control to not allow competitive
tendencies in real life.

There is abundance of resources for everyone, poverty is non existent,
[68]artificial scarcity is no longer sustained by capitalism. There is
enough food and accommodation for everyone, of course for free, as well as
health care, access to information, entertainment, tools and so on. Where
there used to be shopping centers, parking lots, government buildings and
skyscrapers, there are now fields and food banks and people voluntarily
collaborate on automating production of food on them.

Our society is NOT fair, everyone is happy whether he deserves it or not,
happiness doesn't have to be deserved. [69]Fairness is a concept valued by
[70]competitive systems, not altruistic ones, it is an attribute of the
system that ensures the better one wins and worse one loses, i.e. in a
fair society the talented is rewarded and the untalented suffers, the
strong wins and the weak loses, fairness is about winning and losing,
reward and punishment, therefore our society is unfair as there are no
longer any winners or losers.

States and [71]governments don't exist, there are no artificial borders.
Society self regulates and consists of [72]decentralized, mostly
self-sufficient communities that utilize their local resources as much as
they can and send abundant resources to communities that lack them. The is
no law in the sense of complex written legislation, no lawyers, courts and
police, society works on the principle of moral laws, education and
strictly [73]non-violent actions taken against negative phenomena (e.g.
noncooperation, avoidance, ignoring, refusal of people to use money etc.).
Communities aren't hugely [74]interdependent and hyperspecialized as in
capitalism so there is no danger of system [75]collapse, but they aren't
isolated or [76]nationalist, they are altruistic, communist and help each
other. Many decisions nowadays taken by politicians, such as those
regarding distribution of resources, are in our ideal society made by
computers based on collected data and objective scientific criteria.

Criminality doesn't exist, there is no motivation for it as everyone has
abundance of everything, no one carries guns, people don't see themselves
as competing with others in life and everyone is raised in an environment
that nurtures their peaceful, collaborative, selfless loving side. People
with "criminal genes" have become extinct thanks to natural selection by
people voluntarily choosing to breed with non-violent people. Conflict
between people is minimized by the elimination of self interest (and need
for it) -- a lot of violence in current society comes from disagreement
which comes from everyone's different goals (everyone aims to benefit
oneself); in our society this is no longer the case, people rarely
disagree on essential decisions because decisions are driven by pure facts
collected without distortion or suspicion of self interest, i.e. there are
common goals as opposed to a delicate balance between opposing forces.

[77]Technology is simple, powerful, efficient, [78]future proof,
ecological, generally good and maximally helps people. [79]Internet is
actually nice, it provides practically all [80]information ever digitized,
for example there is a global database of all videos ever produced,
including movies, educational videos and documentaries, all without
[81]ads, [82]DRM and [83]copyright strikes, coming with all known
[84]metadata such as tags, subtitles, annotations and translations and are
accessible by many means (something akin websites, [85]APIs, physical
media, text transcripts, ...), all videos can be downloaded, mirrored and
complex search queries can be performed, unlike e.g. with [86]YouTube.
Satellite images, streams from all live cameras and other sensors in the
world are easily accessible in real time. Search engines are much more
powerful than [87]Google can dream of as data is organized efficiently and
friendly to indexing, not hidden behind paywalls, [88]JavaScript obscurity
or registrations to websites, which means that for example all text of all
e-books is indexed as well as all conversations ever had on the Internet
and subtitles of videos. All source code of all programs is available for
unlimited use by anyone. There are only a few models of standardized
[89]computers -- a universal [90]public domain computer -- not thousands
of slightly different competing products as nowadays. There is a tiny,
energy efficient computer model, then a more powerful computer for complex
computations, a simple computer designed to be extremely easy to
manufacture etc. None of course have malicious features such as [91]DRM,
gay teenager aesthetics, consumerist "killer features" or planned
obsolescence. All schematics are available. People possibly wear personal
[92]wrist-watch-like computers, however these are nothing like today's
"[93]smart" watches/phones -- our wrist computers are completely under the
user's control, without any bullshit, spyware, ads and other malicious
features, they last weeks or months on battery as they are in low energy
consumption mode whenever they're not in use, they run [94]extremely
efficient software and are NOT constantly connected to the Internet and
[95]updating -- as an alternative to connecting to the Internet (which is
still possible but requires activating a transmitter) the device may just
choose to receive a [96]world-wide broadcast of general information (which
only requires a low power consumption receiver) if the user requests it
(similarly to how [97]teletext worked), e.g. info about time, weather or
news that's broadcasted by towers and/or satellites and/or small local
broadcasters. Furthermore wrist computers are very durable and water proof
and may have built-in solar chargers, so one wrist computer works
completely independently and for many decades. They have connectors to
attach external devices like keyboards and bigger displays when the user
needs to use the device comfortably at home. The computing world is NOT
split by competing standards such as different programming languages, most
programmers use just one programming language similar to [98]C that's been
designed to maximize quality of technology (as opposed to capitalist
interests such as allowing rapid development by incompetent programmers or
[99]update culture).

[100]Fascism doesn't exist, people no longer compete socially and don't
live in [101]fear (of immigrants, poverty, losing jobs, religious
extremists etc.) that would give rise to militarist thought, society is
multicultural and [102]races highly mixed. There is no need for things
such as [103]political correctness and other censorship, people
acknowledge there exist differences -- differences (e.g. in competence or
performance) don't matter in a non-competitive society, discrimination
doesn't exist.

Computer [104]security is not an issue anymore, passwords and encryption
practically don't exist anymore, there is nothing to "steal", no money on
the Internet, no way to abuse personal data, no possibility to ruin
someone's career, no celebrity accounts to hack etc.

All people speak the same language, possibly [105]Esperanto or
[106]Lojban. Though some speak multiple languages, most of the world
languages have become archaic and are studied e.g. for the sake of
understanding old texts. Of course dialects and different accents of the
world language appear, but all are mutually intelligible thanks to
constant global communication and also people being so responsible as to
willingly try to not diverge from the main form too much.

People don't wear clothes unless for practical reasons (weather, safety,
...). Fashion and shame of nudity doesn't exist and it is seen as wasteful
to keep manufacturing, cleaning and recycling more clothes than
necessarily needed. Of course it is NOT forbidden to wear or make clothes,
people just mostly naturally don't engage in unnecessary, wasteful
activity.

Anyone can have sex with anyone, without hurting anyone of course, but
there are no taboo limitations like forbidden incest, sex with children,
animals or dead bodies, everything is allowed and culturally acceptable as
long as no one gets hurt. "Cheating" in today's sense doesn't exist,
marriage doesn't exist, people regularly have sex with many other people
just to satisfy the basic need. People have learned to separate sex and
love. Of course many people still live in life-long partner relationships.

There are no [107]heroes or leaders. People learn from young age that they
should follow ideas, not people or groups of people, and that cults of
personality are dangerous. There are known experts in different
disciplines and areas of science, but no celebrities, experts aren't
worshiped, their knowledge is treated the same as we nowadays e.g. treat
information that we find in a database. This doesn't mean there aren't
people who are good moral examples and whose behavior is admired, people
are just separated from their actions, people admire behavior, not the
individual -- all people are loved unconditionally, some had the
opportunity to take admirable actions and took it, some were born to
perform well in sports or excel in science, but that's no reason to love
the individual any more or any less or to worship him as a god.

[108]Education is not indoctrination, it is actually good, people (not
only children) attend schools voluntarily (though such "schools" will be
extremely different from what the word means today), there are no grades,
degrees or tests that need to be passed or prescribed courses, only
recommendations and guidance of other people. There is no strict division
to students and teachers, teachers are students at the same time, older
people teach younger. There may of course exist voluntary tests that
people can take to test their knowledge and competence, but no one is
forced to pass tests to continue studying etc.

People don't kill or otherwise abuse and torture animals, people just
don't eat much meat and if they want to, artificial meat is widely
available. Some may possibly eat meat of animal and people that died
naturally, which is acceptable.

[109]Cannibalism is acceptable as long as high hygiene is respected as it
puts a dead body to good use instead of wasting food by burying it or
burning it. Even though most people don't practice cannibalism, it is
perfectly acceptable that some do. Many people wish to be eaten after
death either by people or by animals (as for example some [110]Buddhists
do even nowadays).

People aren't individualist and [111]egoistic, they don't have tattoos,
dyed hair, piercing etc., that's simply bullshit of primitive competitive
cultures. It is correctly seen as immoral to try to persuade by "good
looks" -- for example by wearing a [112]suit -- that's simply a cheap
attempt at deception. Everyone is valued the same no matter his looks,
people don't feel the need to change their gender or alter their look so
as to appeal to anyone or to follow some kind of fashion, trend, to
strategically join some minority to gain the best set of "[113]rights" or
to infiltrate specific social class. Of course cutting hair e.g. for
comfort is practiced, but no one wastes his time with makeup and similar
nonsense.

People live in harmony with nature, from space it is hard to tell humans
live on Earth, the enormous waste of capitalism and consumerist society
has been eliminated, industry isn't raping nature. Cities (or rather many
villages) are greener and more integrated with nature, people live in
energy-efficient underground houses (by which they create more land),
there are fewer roads as people don't use [114]cars much thanks to
efficient public transport and lower need for commuting and transportation
thanks to not having to go to work, utilizing mostly local resources etc.
Thanks to this light pollution, noise and CO2 emissions decrease greatly.
Although work is automatized, relatively few machines are required thanks
to simplification and eliminating all bullshit that's connected to running
our current farms and factories (which further eliminates the recursive
need for factories that create machines for building and maintaining
factories etc.), and thanks to decreased need of things, for example
mentioned cars.

Research advances faster, people are smarter, more rational, emphatic,
loving and more moral. Nowadays probably the majority of the greatest
brains are wasted on bullshit activity such as studying and trying to hack
the [115]market -- even professional researchers nowadays waste time on
"safe", lucrative unnecessary bullshit research in the "publish or perish"
spirit, chasing grants, easy [116]patents etc. In our ideal society smart
people focus on truly relevant issues such as curing cancer, without being
afraid of failure, stalling, negative results, lack of funds etc. People
are responsible and practice e.g. voluntary birth control to prevent
overpopulation. However people are NOT cold rational machines, on the
contrary emotions are present much more than today, for example the
emotion of [117]love towards life is so strong most people are willing to
die to save someone else, even a complete stranger. People express emotion
through rich art and good deeds. People are also spiritual despite being
highly rational -- they know rationality is but one of many tools for
viewing and understanding the world. [118]Religion still exists commonly
but not in radical or hostile forms; Christianity, Islam and similar
religions become more similar to e.g. [119]Buddhism, some even merge after
realizing their differences are relatively unimportant and stop competing
for mass control of people, religion becomes much less organized and much
more personal.

[120]Art is rich and unrestricted (no [121]copyright or other "[122]IP"
exists), with people being able to fully dedicate their lives to it if
they wish and with the possibility to create without distraction such as
having to make living or dealing with copyright. People collaborate and
reuse each other's works, many [123]free universes exist, everyone can
enjoy all art without restriction and remix it however he wishes. Art is
not someone's property or capital, it is a discovery made by someone for
everyone's benefit.

[124]War is impossible in this world -- states, nations and borders
between countries no longer exist, people naturally avoid forming fascist
groups that would compete and since everyone has abundance of everything
and since things such as poverty, crime (which could be blamed on "someone
else"), politicians, "jobs" to be "taken", [125]heroes to be followed and
[126]fear culture no longer exist, there is simply no reason for people to
even think about war, not even talking about a strong culture of
non-violence that wouldn't allow resolving any conflict with violence even
if it appeared. People don't confine themselves to their own "country",
they travel freely and get to know people all around the globe, everyone
shares a common language and see every other human being as part of his
own family. Even if a mentally ill individual appears who wants to start a
war for its own sake, it's impossible for him to do -- how can he convince
thousands of people to start killing each other when these people don't
have any reason for doing so, when they love each other and are happy
doing what they're doing? To convince a man to go take a weapon and walk
to literal hell to kill other human beings while at constant risk of dying
a horrible death requires people to be extremely brainwashed, desperate,
miserable and cornered into seeing no other option -- without this no one
will ever want war. For this reason [127]armies no longer exist either,
people don't even know how to lead wars, war is simply a thing of the
past.

People live much longer and healthier lives thanks to faster research in
(actual) medicine, free healthcare, more doctors (those who nowadays do
bullshit business), better food (no junk/fast food), less pollution,
higher living standard, more natural life closer to nature, minimization
of stress and elimination of the [128]antivirus paradox from medicine.
They also die more peacefully thanks to having lived a rich, fulfilling
lives, they die in the circle of their family and are not afraid of death,
they take it as natural part of life, death is culturally accepted and not
feared. [129]Euthanasia is allowed and common for those who wish to die
for whatever reason.

A paradise is achieved on [130]Earth.

FAQ

See also [131]FAQ.

* Isn't it utopia? As explained above, the society is an ideal model
that's probably not 100% achievable, but we are pretty certain we can
get extremely close to the ideal in the real world implementation,
there are no known obstacles to it. Even if we couldn't get very close
to the ideal, it would be better to get a little closer than not,
there is no logic in refusing to try. Every major invention happened
for the first time one day, even when it's been called impossible; for
example before [132]Wikipedia practically everyone would tell you the
principles on which it would be built (free voluntary work, allowing
anyone to edit) were utopian. History is basically a constant stream
of events proving our disbeliefs wrong. Things such as abolishment of
death sentence, universal literacy, universal health care, women in
science, abolishment of black man slavery, instant world wide
communication and similar things might have once been deemed a similar
utopia.
* How is this different from "communism", "socialism" and other
movements/ideologies that brought so much suffering and eventually
failed anyway? We are very different especially by NOT advocating
revolutions, violence and forceful application of our ideas, we simply
educate, show what's wrong and what the solution is. Harm has only
ever been done by forcing specific ideas, no matter whether rightist
or leftist ones -- the key in preventing harm is to avoid the
temptation of forcing ideas. We know that only a voluntary,
non-violent change based on facts and rational thinking can succeed in
long term. The mistake of every failed "utopian" ideology was that it
was forced, oppressive and in the end served only a few as opposed to
everyone, no matter what the initial idea was. These ideologies fought
other ideologies, creates cults of personalities and propaganda to
manipulate masses. We do not fight anyone, we simply show the truth
and offer it to people and believe that this truth can't be unseen.
Once enough people see the truth and know what the logical solution
is, a change will happen naturally, peacefully and inevitably, without
any force.
* How do you think it is realistic to achieve abundance of resources for
all? Nowadays it is easily possible to produce enough resources for
everyone, i.e. food, electricity, clothing, buildings to live in etc.
-- in fact this has been possible for many decades to centuries now,
today all the technology for 99% automated production of most basic
resources such as food and electricity is available and well tested,
it is just kept in private hands for their sole profit. Nowadays our
society is putting most of its effort to artificially made up
"businesses" that keep the status quo, partly out of social inertia
and partly by the (mostly decentralized and to a degree not even self
admitted) conspiracy of the rich. Imagine people stop engaging in
marketing, market speculation and investing, bureaucracy, public
relations, law (copyrights, patents, property laws, taxes, ...),
economics, military, meaningless technology (DRM, spyware,
cryptocurrency, viruses and antiviruses, ...), artificial meaningless
fashion, drug abuse business, organizing political parties, campaigns,
unions, counter unions, cartels, strikes, and so on and so forth (this
of course doesn't mean hobbies and art should disappear, just
unnecessary industries). We will gain millions of people who can help
achieve abundance, land that can be used to produce food and build
houses to live in (as opposed to skyscrapers, unnecessary factories,
parking lots etc.), and we will let go of the immense burden of
bullshit business (millions of unnecessary workplaces having to be
maintained, millions of people having to commute by car daily,
communicate, organize, be watched by employers, ...). People will get
healthier, more rested, cooperative and actually passionate about a
common goal, as opposed to depressed (needing psychiatrists and
antidepressants), lethargic and hostile to each other. Of course this
can't happen over night, probably not even over a decade, but we can
make the transition slowly, one step at a time and in the meanwhile
use rules based e.g. on the following principle: that which is
abundant is unlimited for everyone, that which is scarce is equally
divided between all. The question is not whether it's possible, but
whether we want to do it.
* Isn't your society unnatural? In many way yes, it's unnatural just as
clothes, medicine, computers or humans living over 70 years are
unnatural. Civilization by definition means resisting the cruelness of
nature, however our proposed society is to live as much as possible in
harmony with the nature and is much more natural than our current
society which e.g. pushes sleep deprivation, high consumption of
antidepressants, eating disorders, addiction to social networks and so
on.
* Won't people get bored? What will motivate people? If they have
everything why would they even get out of bed? Haven't you seen the
mouse utopia experiments? It is a mistake to think that competition
and the necessity of making living is the only or even the main
driving force of human behavior and creativity (on the contrary, it is
usually what makes people commit suicides, i.e. lose the will to
live). Human curiosity, playfulness, the joy of collaboration,
boredom, sense of altruism, socialization, seeking of life meaning and
recognition and many other forces drive our behavior. Ask yourself:
why do people have hobbies when no one is forcing them to it? Why
don't you bore yourself to death in your spare time? Why don't rich
people who literally don't have to work bore themselves to death? Why
doesn't your pet dog that's not forced to hunt for food bore himself
to death? Maslow's hierarchy of needs tells us that once people
fulfill basic needs such as that for obtaining food, they naturally
start to pursue higher ones such as that for socializing or doing
science or art. Unlike rats in small cages people show interests in
seeking satisfaction of higher needs than just food and sex, even
those that aren't scientist try to do things such as sports,
photography, woodwork or gardening, just for the sake of it. It's not
that there would be a lack challenges in our society, just that we
wouldn't force arbitrary challenges on people.
* Why are you [133]defeatist? Don't you think it's just pointless trying
to achieve something while believing you already failed? Firstly being
defeated doesn't mean disappearing completely, we know we will fail
but we'll leave a seed of something that can't eventually be stopped
from growing: LRS is extremely ahead of its time -- not by 50 years or
100 years, but more like several thousand years, maybe millions.
Monkeys aim to prevail during their life time and by getting at the
top of some kind of mountain or social pyramid, by hoarding X wealth,
passing some law, creating some kind of country or whatever -- that's
completely worthless animal behavior, we aim to achieve something
truly significant and good instead which will take longer than our
lifetime and will require behaving without self interest and
[134]competition. Just like abacus was the very first step towards
inventing today's [135]computers, LRS is in this sense the very first
step to inventing a truly good society. It is first by completely
letting go of all [136]bullshit, every single one, including things
like "winner mentality", which is why there are almost no supporters,
everyone [137]fails by keeping to the old ways at least in some
points. We aim for truth and good, not for winning -- giving up the
goal of winning makes us able to take the moral decision in situations
when we have to choose between winning and behaving correctly.
* Without violence, how will you prevent capitalists from continuing
capitalism? As also stated e.g. in the [138]Trash Magic manifesto, we
can simply destroy the economy by refusing to participate in it -- a
capitalist cannot sell a thing that's abundant, available everywhere
for free, he can't sell services if those services are provided for
free. Capitalism is depending on the fact that those who it abuses
have nowhere to run away to, once enough of us start building such
place and provide a bette place to live, suddenly more people will
leave the capitalist system and even if some capitalists remain, they
won't be able to do anything, economy won't work anymore.
* If you say it's possible, why wasn't it done before? Firstly big and
small scale communities working on [139]anarchist, [140]communist and
peaceful principles have existed for a long time in environments that
allow it, e.g. those that have abundance of resources. Globally
society couldn't reach this state because only until recently we
lacked the technology to provide such an ideal environment globally or
even on a scale of a whole country, i.e. only until recently we have
been forced by the nature to compete for basic resources such as food
and space to live. However with computers, factories, high level of
automation and other technology and knowledge we posses, we now have,
for the first time in history, the capability to establish an
environment with abundance of resources for everyone on the planet.
Nowadays only social inertia in the form of [141]capitalism is
ARTIFICIALLY keeping scarcity and social competition in place --
getting rid of this obsolete system is now needed to allow
establishment of our ideal society. Part of the answer to this
question may also be that reaching such an advanced state of society
requires long development, technological, cultural and intellectual,
just as many other things (things like abolishment of death sentence
or even accepting the existence of irrational numbers all required a
long time of cultural development).
* How will you make people work? We won't, in an ideal society people
don't have to work, all work is done by machines -- that's the point
of creating machines in the first place. In practice there may in a
foreseeable future be the need for small amounts of human work such as
overlooking the machines, but the amount of work can be so small that
volunteers will easily handle it -- especially with people having no
burden of working day jobs there should be no shortage of volunteers.
Remember that by abandoning the current system 99% of "bullshit work"
(marketing, lawyers, bureaucracy, fashion, ...) will disappear.
* Does elimination of bullshit jobs (and bullshit in general) mean my
favorite activity will disappear?! Unless your hobby is something like
killing people for fun, we don't really aim to force anyone to quit
anything he likes to do, on the contrary we aim exactly to establish
the freedom to do anything one desires, just without artificially
pushing masses to engage in some hyped activity (as nowadays does
economy, politics, fashion, propaganda, mainstreamization etc.). So if
you like e.g. designing clothes, you are free to do so as a form of
art, we just argue against e.g. socially forced necessity to follow
fashion in clothing and making capitalist business out of it, which is
what we call "bullshit", i.e. if you really love it, you can do it,
there will just be many fewer people doing it as only those who truly
love doing the activity for its own sake will be doing it (without
economy you won't be rewarded for your activity, you will only ever
get the joy of doing the activity and it potentially helping others).
We believe most bullshit activities that were invented by capitalism,
such as marketing, will simply naturally disappear once capitalism
ends -- there is no need to force disappearance of something that dies
out naturally. Yes, it is most likely you will let go of some things
you perhaps enjoying today, such as e.g. collecting games in your
Steam library -- simply because this won't be possible anymore (there
will be no Steam, all games will be free) -- but you will replace
these with much healthier activities, for example cultivating your
library of physical books in your house. Just as a child lets go of
playing with its toys and starts engaging in more meaningful hobbies
once it matures, people will naturally (without being forced to)
change their habits as they mature (or rather when they are no longer
prevented by society from being able to mature).
* How will society make progress? Just as it always had: by science,
curiosity, necessity, accidental discoveries, pursuit of creating art
etc. It is a mistake to think we need capitalism or anything similar
in order to make progress; progress cannot be stopped no matter what,
it will always be here as long as humans exist.
* How do you prevent natural human selfish and violent behavior? Violent
and selfish behavior is natural in us just as peaceful and altruistic
behavior, we have two sides and which one shows is mostly determined
by the conditions in which we live, by our upbringing and people we
see as role models. Nowadays we think people are extremely selfish and
violent because we live in society that highly fuels the "evil" side
in us, when we're forced to fight for basic living and grow up in a
highly competitive environment, it's no surprise most adapt to this
and grow up to be "dicks". If we're forced to fight for food and
brainwashed since birth that "life is a [142]fight", we will be
selfish and violent, just as wild wolves are violent while pet dogs
whose needs are secured and who were raised peacefully are mostly
completely peaceful. If we have abundance and grow up in a society
that naturally rejects any violence, we will grow up to solve
conflicts peacefully and think of others, just as nowadays we e.g.
naturally learn to wear clothes because simply everyone does it and
there is little reason not to. If we make resources abundant, there
will be no need for selfishness -- do you see anyone stealing air from
others out of selfishness? No, because there is no need for it, air is
abundant. By changing the environment people live and grow up in we
will make 99.99% of people abandon violence and selfish interests
(note the remaining natural need for selfishness and competition can
be satisfied e.g. with games).
* How will you prevent chaos without laws or rules for the people? We
don't say there should be no rules, we are just against complicated
written law that no one can even comprehend (even lawyers don't know
all laws nowadays) and that has so little in common with morality. Our
society works on the basis of moral rules that all stem from the
common goal of well being of living beings and that are derived and
taught by people themselves -- for example one moral rule that all
people would learn would be that money is bad for society (along with
the reasons why it is so) and even though there would be no police
"enforcing" this rule, the rule would be effective by the fact that
absolute majority of people would simply refuse to use money -- in a
society where most people know capitalism is bad for them capitalism
can't work. Note the importance of the fact that people wouldn't just
be taught to memorize such rules as "facts set in stone" (as is our
current law), emphasis would be put on people deriving their moral
code and understanding how their behavior affects others, people would
learn and teach by example.
* How will you prevent criminality such as stealing, murder and mafia
organizations? In a society with abundance for all which works for the
good of all criminality simply won't make sense, i.e. we will
eliminate criminality by solving the root cause of it, not by curing
the symptoms (building prisons etc.). People have no reason to revolt
against a system that benefits them or attack other people if there is
no conflict between them. Large criminal organizations also cannot
exist if most population rejects them, for example there cannot arise
a capitalist corporation (or a similar mafia organization) if most
population is educated and refuses to engage in capitalism. In
addition to this a more mature, educated and responsible society will
naturally minimize genetic predisposition to things such as aggression
and self interest by natural selection as females will choose to
rather have offspring with good people (unlike today), making genes
associated with bad behavior go extinct. Of course, we probably won't
eliminate criminality 100%, but that's not possible under any other
system -- even in your current society with prisons and other
punishments there still exist criminality. Of course in practice,
until we achieve our ideal, we will likely need to keep some
anti-criminality precautions as a necessary evil, but generally we
will be able to greatly relax them (reduce police numbers, abandon
death penalty, ...) as we move towards the ideal society. For example
in an intermediate state of our society dangerous criminals won't be
killed but only immobilized and they won't be put in prisons as a
punishment but only sent to e.g. a remote island so as to be isolated,
without punishing them by restricting their freedom within the island.
* How will the [143]economy work without money? With abundance of
resources there will be no money and no trade, resources will be
available to anyone who needs them. Various [144]anarchist schools
already have proposals for how distribution of resources could work.
The [145]Venus Project calls this a [146]resource based economy and
proposes using computers and globally placed sensors to collect data
and make decisions about where to distribute resources. Resources
would be gathered and distributed more locally and cities would be
more self sufficient so as to prevent waste and vulnerability of the
system, we wouldn't see a huge globalization like nowadays, there is
e.g. no need for transporting exotic food all over the whole world to
places where there is enough local food available, however anything
could be distributed to places where such resources are scarce (e.g.
water to deserts). Each community could have food banks and other
storage and distribution centers.
* How will you prevent discrimination and racism? Things such as racism
appear when one group of people feels endangered by another group, in
a society without social competition these issues will naturally
disappear.
* How will you fulfill the natural need of people for competition? With
sports and other games. Competition of people won't be forbidden, it
just won't be mandatory and it won't be the basis of society.
* How will you prevent overpopulation? By voluntary birth control.
* How will you force people to change so radically? We won't force
people to change, the change has to be voluntary, and that will be
achieved by education. We don't advocate revolution but rather a
slower, evolutionary transition. Just as now you're learning about our
ideal society, more people will. With more people on the board the
word should spread more quickly and with better conditions and greater
general education of people over the world more will start to see and
realize this is the only way forward.
* Do you really think you can convince even diehard neonazis to accept
these ideas? Not in their lifetime -- some people can't practically be
convinced, it would take longer than they will be alive. But these
people will die one day and there will come a new generation, a tabula
rasa, which will have the opportunity for a better upbringing and not
growing up to become diehard nazis.
* Without any censorship how will you prevent "hate speech" or protect
people's personal data? As mentioned above, racism and issues of so
called "hate speech" will simply disappear in a non-competitive
society. The issues of abuse of personal information will similarly
disappear without any corporations that abuse such data and without
conflict between people, in the ideal society there won't even be any
need for things such as passwords and encryption.
* How will you prevent psychopaths from just going and killing people?
In the ideal society maximum effort will be made to prevent wrong
psychological development of people which can happen due to crime,
poverty, discrimination, bullying etc., so the cases of lunatics
killing for no reason would be extremely rare but of course they would
happen sometimes, as they do nowadays, they cannot be prevented
completely (they aren't completely prevented even nowadays, a
psychopath is not afraid of police). Our society would simply see such
events as unfortunate disasters, just like natural disasters etc. In
transition states of our society there may still exist imperfect means
of solving such situations such as means for non lethal immobilization
of the attacker and his isolation (but not punishment, i.e. not a
prison).
* Would such society be stable? Wouldn't people revert back to "old
ways" over time? We believe the society would be highly stable, much
more than current society plagued by financial crises, climate
changes, wars, political fights etc. The longer a good society stays,
the more stable it will probably become as its principles will become
more and more embedded in the culture and there will be no
destabilizing forces -- no groups revolting "against the system"
should appear because no one will be oppressed and therefore unhappy
about the situation.
* Will you allow abortions? There is no strict YES/NO answer here, as
with everything there will be no simple allowing or forbidding laws,
decisions about abortions will be made in the spirit of the common
goal, handled on a case-by-case basis and strong prevention of
unwanted and/or risky pregnancy. There will be more people willing to
adopt children, birth control means will be better and accessible to
anyone for free, children will not pose any financial burden or be an
"obstacle to one's career", so this issue won't be nearly as great as
it is today.
* You say you want equality of all living beings -- does this mean you
will force animals to not kill each other or that you will refuse to
e.g. kill viruses? Ideally we would like to maximize the happiness and
minimize suffering of all living beings, even primitive life forms
such as bacteria, and if that cannot be achieved at the time, we will
try to get as close to it as we can and do the next best thing.
Sometimes there are no simple answers here but the important thing is
the goal we have to keep in mind. For example provided that we want to
sustain human life (i.e. we don't decide to starve to death) we have
to choose what to eat: nowadays we will try to be vegan so as to spare
animals of suffering but we are still aware that eating plants means
killing plants which are living beings too -- we don't think the life
of a plant is less worthy of an existence than that of an animal, but
from what we know plants don't show signs of suffering to the degree
to which e.g. mammals do, so eating plants rather than animals is the
least evil we can do. Once we invent widely available artificial food,
we will switch to eating that and we'll stop eating plants too.

How To Implement It

This is the hard part, however after successfully setting things in motion
it may start to become much easier and eventually even inevitable that the
ideal society will be closely approached. Our forefront goal is to change
the [147]culture, the mindset, the way people think -- not the [148]laws,
laws are irrelevant, they are in place to tame shitty culture (not even
mentioning that by now law is just business, degenerated and corrupted so
that it fails even at really providing anything to the people), once
culture is fixed, laws will be eliminated. That's partly why there is no
point in voting or supporting political parties, we mustn't rely on
"something else" (laws) or "someone else" (political parties) to make good
society for us, we must make it ourselves by simply starting to behave
well as we watch the system [149]crumble under its own weight -- for this
we develop a parallel culture that's forked from the older, saner culture
and developed in better direction than where it went; our [150]less
retarded culture exists alongside the toxic [151]modern culture and is
seen as "offensive" by it (just as anything from the past), nevertheless
we must keep to it as much as possible -- this society relies on retards
adjusting to any culture they live in (just like most people will acquire
the accent of the place they live in), so we mustn't do that (we must keep
our own "language" no matter what anyone around us speaks). For this we
may have to isolate ourselves from the toxicity of today ([152]political
correctness, [153]productivity cult, [154]fear culture, [155]privacy
hysteria, pedophobia, [156]gay fascism, [157]woman fascism and so on) and
just not behave in alignment with today's world at all.

However at the moment society seems too spoiled and change of a direction
seems very unlikely, it seems more probable that society will destroy
itself or enslave everyone forever -- [158]capitalism and similar
misdirections of society connected to self-interest, competition,
[159]fascism etc. pose a huge threat to our endeavor and may ruin it
completely, so they need to be strictly opposed, but in a CORRECT way,
i.e. not by revolutions and violence but rather by education, offering
alternatives and leading examples (i.e. means aligned with our basic
values). It has to be stressed that we always need to follow our basic
values of nonviolence, love, true rationality etc., no compromise of these
is ever possible. Resorting to easy ways of violence, forcing ideas etc.
will only prolong the established cycle of suffering in the society which
we are trying to end. Remember, we are not creating a revolution, we aims
for a rather slow, nonviolent, voluntary evolutional change.

We already have technology and knowledge to implement our ideal society --
this may have been the most difficult part and it has already been
achieved -- that's the good news.

For the next phase education is crucial, we have to spread our ideas
further, first among the intellectuals, then to the masses. By this we
seek to [160]unretard society. Unfortunately this phase is still in its
infancy, vast majority of intellectuals are completely uneducated in this
area -- this we have to change. There are a few that support parts of our
plan such as simple technology, nonviolence, not hurting animals etc., but
almost no one supports them all, or see the big picture -- we need to
unite these people (see also [161]type A/B fail) to form a small but
dedicated community sharing all the proposed ideas. This community will
then be able to collaborate on further education, e.g. by creating
materials such as books, games, vlogs, giving talks etc.

With this more of the common people should start to jump on the train and
support causes such as [162]universal basic income, [163]free software
etc., possibly leading to establishment of communities and political
parties that will start restricting capitalism and implementing a more
socialist society with more freedom and better education, which should
further help nurture people better and accelerate the process further.
From here on things should become much easier and faster, people will
already see the right direction themselves.

Inspiration

Here are some of the ideas/movements/ideologies and people whose ideas
inspired less retarded society. It has to be stressed we never follow
[164]people, only their ideas -- mentioning people here simply means we
follow SOME of their ideas. Also keep in mind mentioning an idea here
doesn't mean fully embracing it, we most likely only adopted some parts of
it.

* [165]anarcho pacifism: Rejecting force and hierarchy of one living
being dominating and oppressing another.
* beatniks/[166]hippies: We are inspired by many of their ideals such as
free love, pacifism and avoidance of [167]work.
* Buddha, [168]Buddhism: Attaining freedom through letting go, loving
others, focusing on the spiritual rather than the material, living non
violently.
* [169]communism, [170]anarcho communism, [171]socialism (but NOT
[172]Marxism): Sharing, equality, rejection of property and money,
focus on people at large.
* [173]Diogenes, [174]cynicism: Rejecting conformity, wealth, [175]work,
power, fame, materialistic needs, embracing simple living, self
sufficiency living in harmony with nature, choosing asceticism and
difficult way of life as path towards spiritual clarity -- cynics have
a great deal in common with LRS.
* Gandhi, [176]non violence: Achieving things without the use of
violence (and similar kinds of force), completely refusing to use
certain unethical means for achieving goals, not abandoning one's
beliefs even for the cost of one's life.
* [177]Jesus, [178]Christianity: Teaching [179]love towards everyone,
even those who hurt us, practicing non violence, helping, sharing and
compassion, opposing materialist values, valuing the spiritual, being
ready to die for one's beliefs.
* [180]minimalism, [181]KISS, [182]suckless, [183]less is more,
[184]worse is better, [185]Unix philosophy, ...: Way towards
[186]freedom, both practical and spiritual, letting go of the
unneeded, most essential design principle, beauty and elegance.
* [187]primitivism: Related to minimalism, letting go of unnecessary and
focus on what matters the most, living close to nature.
* [188]Richard Stallman, [189]free software, [190]free culture:
Opposition of "[191]intellectual property", focus on ethics, freedom
and technology/art serving the people.
* [192]Sikhism: Serving free food to all people as part of Langar,
example of [193]selflessness.
* vegetarianism, [194]veganism: Choosing to not hurt other living
beings, even those that aren't of the same species, even for the cost
of making having less comfortable life.
* [195]Venus project: Project with very similar goals as ours.
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